Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 201: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The speaker is referring to Options:
  A) Fosuwa
  B) Awere
  C) Maanan
  D) Hannah
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 202:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 203:

  He who writes a prose is a__________?

  Options:
  A) Poet
  B) Writer
  C) Author
  D) Actor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 204:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  When he came back from Operi I went to his house and he talked like a sane man. I reminded him of saying that a man must dance the dance prevailing in his time...'

  The above statement was made by Ofoka about

  Options:
  A) Nwaka
  B) Akuebue
  C) Ezeulu
  D) Obika
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 205: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 206:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,

  Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

  Options:
  A) fragility
  B) pleasure
  C) comedy
  D) romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 207:

  In Herbert's "The Pulley", God's supremacy is exemplified through______

  Options:
  A) His withholding of the gift of rest
  B) the insatiable nature of man's needs
  C) His unending love for mankind
  D) His blessings of man with many gifts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 208:

  "The sudden throb of pain" in Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Old' signifies the_________

  Options:
  A) negative impacts of aging
  B) difficulties of life
  C) youthful age
  D) uncertainties of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 209:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'

  Patricia Melo:The Killer

  The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

  Options:
  A) brace himself up for the action
  B) report the pig before killing it
  C) contemplate the killing of the pig
  D) justify the action of killing the pig
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 210:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is

  Options:
  A) one of superiority
  B) a war of attrition
  C) one of vengeance
  D) a jihad
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  The correct answer is A .